Life & Times

Listening to Vessel by The Accidentals on Apple Music 🎶 Try to give it time, life will teach you how to live You just have to live it for a while

Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #1 touch (someday, maybe) 📷

One of the best lines in Kier Starmer’s speech at the Labour Party Conference yesterday. “It’s easy to comfort yourself that your opponents are bad people. But I don’t think Boris Johnson is a bad man. I think he is a trivial man. I think he’s a showman with nothing left to show. I think he’s …

Trying out Apple Music, listening to star-crossed from Kasey Musgraves. Somehow I managed to get a free 6-month trial, so I’ll probably cancel my Tidal subscription 🎶

This article from The New Statesman website is a sobering read for those of us lucky enough not to worry too much about the odd £20, Will the £20 Universal Credit cut become Boris Johnson’s government’s worst decision? - New Statesman Whitehall’s own analysis finds the cut will have a …

Finished reading: The Things You Find In Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett. Grab a free copy here 📚

Who’s a clever boy? 🐕 Many thank to Nicky, Doug and the rest of the DJ Dog Training Club team for your help getting us through.

Listening to Reprise by Moby whilst writing a proposal. 🎶

Abandoned agricultural machinery 📷

The new feeding station for the birds is open for business 🌱

Saturday ride

Listening to From Dreams to Dust by The Felice Brothers on Tidal. I first discovered this band when I was looking for music to play on my Monday Music Mix show on ITfM Radio back in the day. 🎶

What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about?

“This is a mad way to run the country,” confessed a member of the government. Whether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce. Bravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, …

What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about?

I have three invites to Literal.club if anyone is interested https://literal.club/invite/D7H0BFU 📚

Two Fingers by Sea Power

This is the first track released from the new album, Everything was Forever, due February 2022. 🎶

Two Fingers by Sea Power